But he will take on a challenge even he can only lose when he runs against the fastest man in history on a visit to Jamaica next month.

The Prince will meet 100m world record holder Usain Bolt when he stops off at the Olympic champion’s training track in Kingston during his first solo foreign tour.

Royal sources have told The Daily Telegraph that the Prince, who is an Olympic ambassador for Team GB, is hoping to challenge Bolt to a “fun” race if does not interrupt the athlete’s training schedule.

“The Prince and Usain Bolt are keen for it to happen,” said a royal insider. “Because the visit is at a critical time in the run-up to the London 2012 Games, the whole thing will depend on Usain Bolt’s training schedule, which the Prince obviously doesn’t want to interrupt.”

Bolt, 25, broke the 100m world record in 2009 by the biggest margin since digital timing was introduced.

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His winning time of 9.58 seconds is considered by some experts to be at the limits of what is humanly possible. He also holds the world records in the 200m and, with his teammates, in the 4x100m relay.

Despite his achievements, he still trains at a rudimentary athletics track which will be on Prince Harry’s itinerary when he visits Jamaica at the beginning of March as the Royal family begin Diamond Jubilee tours of every Commonwealth country.

The 27-year-old Prince is also expected to meet Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, who said in January that she intended to remove the Queen as head of state to turn the country into a republic.

A spokesman for St James’s Palace denied that the Prince’s itinerary had been changed in any way as a result of Mrs Simpson Miller’s forthright comments.

The Prince will begin his tour in Belize on March 2, moving on to Jamaica and the Bahamas before undertaking a trade mission to Brazil.

By the time he arrives in Rio de Janeiro on March 9 his brother the Duke of Cambridge will be in the Falkland Islands flying his RAF Search and Rescue helicopter on a six-week tour of duty.

Prince Harry will then return to training with his Apache helicopter squadron ahead of an expected deployment to Afghanistan at the end of the year.

He has already undergone hostage training, during which he was hooded, threatened and told about the tortures he could face if he crashes and is captured by the Taliban.